Joshua Roberts
Joshua Roberts
Owner at Skill Powered
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    Joshua Roberts

    My name is Joshua Roberts and I'm an award winning Instructional & Gameful Designer. Working with some of the largest businesses in the UK and Europe. I provide unique, engaging and effective learning solutions for companies.
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion What we can learn from games.
"It's now Ready! Check out the full post here - Gaming in Training"
  • over 9 years ago01/02/15 at 4:28 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Customer Support Scenario Training
"Hello Peter, I actually wrote a blog post giving some advice in ways of presenting topics like this. You may find it useful - it uses th..."
  • over 9 years ago01/02/15 at 12:55 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion What we can learn from games.
"New post coming soon looking at The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and how Nintendo optimise the use of introductions."
  • over 9 years ago01/02/15 at 9:12 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Merry Christmas everyone!
"Agreed. And Merry Christmas to all! No work for me until the New Year now - time for some well earned rest and relaxation!"
  • over 9 years ago12/24/14 at 12:01 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion What we can learn from games.
"Luke Rhodes That's an awesome blog you've got there. But beyond just teaching game mechanics I think that games can teach a whole lot ..."
  • over 9 years ago12/23/14 at 1:41 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion What we can learn from games.
"Tristan Hunt Fantastic! I have subscribed can't wait to read more. Thank you Tristan I'm glad you're enjoying it! Happy Holidays!"
  • over 9 years ago12/23/14 at 12:02 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion What we can learn from games.
"What we can learn from "Papers, Please" New blog post focusing on the brand new iOS hit game! Available Here"
  • over 9 years ago12/22/14 at 9:47 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Do you have a favorite blog post or article you've written?
"I've just recently started my blog but am blown away by the initial success - I focus on how video games can be used as amazing ID influe..."
  • over 9 years ago12/17/14 at 8:58 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion What is your testing or QA process for e-learning?
"Reviewing should never be taken lightly. This is one of the most important aspects of development, if you don't conduct a thorough review..."
  • over 9 years ago12/17/14 at 8:47 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion What we can learn from games.
"Small design post has now gone online - using Football Manager 2015 to create useful pop up information boxes for learners!"
  • over 9 years ago12/15/14 at 8:36 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Ideas on getting rid of bullet points to state course objectives
"I tend to incorporate them around the story or scenario I'm building for the course. Recently I have implemented objectives through the u..."
  • over 9 years ago12/15/14 at 8:34 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Storyline 2 or Studio 14
"In my brutally honest opinion Ellen you need to go for Storyline. It's going to be a steeper learning curve but you will outgrow Studio ..."
  • over 9 years ago12/12/14 at 4:16 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Crossword Gamification!
"Hello Stuart, Good start with this - well put together.  I do a lot of gamification work in the UK and actually one of the best things ..."
  • over 9 years ago12/12/14 at 4:12 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Should links open in a new window?
"Nicole Legault I sense you have strong feelings about this issue, Joshua! hehe Haha - you'd be right. Perhaps a little too stro..."
  • over 9 years ago12/12/14 at 3:25 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion POLL: What are your favorite mobile apps?
"This is actually a very interesting discussion but I'll come at this from a different angle.  I use the traditional options of Evernote,..."
  • over 9 years ago12/12/14 at 3:24 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Should links open in a new window?
"Opens in a new tab. Opening in the same tab is one of my most hated options on the internet."
  • over 9 years ago12/12/14 at 3:14 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion What we can learn from games.
"A quick Friday design feature coming later today."
  • over 9 years ago12/12/14 at 10:47 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Private Messaging gone?
"Phil Mayor I think it has gone, think they have removed all social media aspects such as the wall and PMs That seems like a hor..."
  • over 9 years ago10/23/14 at 12:08 pm (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Recruiting a Articulate Storyline developer - UK
"Sent you a PM Leo."
  • almost 10 years ago08/04/14 at 6:36 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Gamification in Training
"Jerson Campos said: Sorry Joshua, but I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. Adding leaderboards, badges, etc is gamificatio..."
  • almost 10 years ago08/01/14 at 1:18 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Gamification in Training
"Jeff Kortenbosch said: Hi Travis, welcome to the forums. Joshua is making an excellent point. That being said, there are ways to impleme..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/31/14 at 1:44 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Gamification in Training
"Travis Merrifield said: Hi Everyone, I work for a financial institution (credit union) and we are looking to take our existing online pro..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/31/14 at 12:51 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Designing E-Learning for Desktop vs. Tablet vs. Mobile
"Very good post. I think that people have envisaged that mobile output is simply a check-box option when publishing a completed Storyline ..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/28/14 at 1:15 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Video not playing for client
"Christine, I never actually knew about the Tempshare server, so thanks very much for this nugget of information."
  • almost 10 years ago07/25/14 at 6:38 am (UTC)
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Joshua Roberts replied to the discussion Learning Thought for the Day.
"Owen Holt said: From a WSJ online article..... "Yankovic tapped TruScribe to make the video, which took about 10 months to complete, say..."
  • almost 10 years ago07/24/14 at 8:46 am (UTC)